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Month: June 2016

In their own way, the noises are irritating, welcoming, warm, annoying, nerve-grinding, magical… well, you get the idea. Noise is… stuff. Until two years ago I had only endured Canadian noise. It’s different than Dominican noise. More polite and contained.

It was the night noise is Sosua. These assholes would be driving around, likely going home from the pub or a party on those Quads. Kill-Me-Now, those are awful. At three or four in the morning, even worse. The Quad would go by, loud enough to set off car alarms and then all the Street Dogs would start going. Then the Roosters.

Here, in Santo Domingo, I actually still hear that noise, the Dogs and motorbikes, and Roosters. But it’s a big City. Lot of people and the building I live in is very loud. Music. Talking. Kids. Screaming. Kids screaming. Adults screaming. Dogs barking. Sometimes I can’t even tell the difference between the babies and the Chihuahuas. High-pitched, brain-burrowing, Mind-piercing noise.

The couple directly downstairs from me have a newborn and a toddler. In the morning, they plop the newborn into a highchair on the balcony and give the toddler a drum or tin xylophone and then go for a smoke and put the kettle on or who knows what they do. All I know is, I Hate It.

The lady beside me comes out on her balcony at least once a day and screams down her telephone for upwards to an hour. Almost always irritating. The people below here are new and they sit and yap on the balcony almost constantly. Late hours, little radio or CD player blasting. The rest of the tenants don’t do anything except shut their windows. Pfft! Quitters!

Not having had children I’m sure the same sound that burrows into my braid and makes me want to hit things is like music to its mother’s ears. Music that sounds like shooting bullets up a drainpipe.

No one actually seems to mind. Or at least, they don’t say so. I do. I shout from my balcony . Shout things like, Bag! Rocks! River!

Living noises are great. Dishes, chatting, phones ringing, cooking. It’s a safety-in-numbers kind of pleasant I really like. Spanish music, my neighbours practicing the piano or violin are really soothing, even when she plays Christmas Carols in June.

Some people may remember several game shows called ‘Passwod’ Everyone know the word but the contestant and they were given clues to figure it out. Sort of like hackers of today Pet names, birthday, anniversary , childhood address.

iCloud. Bank. Two, three different email accounts. Movie sites. Signing in to the computer. Never mind having to sync it all up with the phone, iPad, laptop. It’s a mess! When I first starting interneting I had need of maybe three passwords and they were all the same. But that’s not good enough for you, is it Internet? Noooo.

Once I needed more I used a variation of the original. Still do. Except the more you need the worse it gets. I went from two, three, five to how many changes? It’s madness. Now I somehow ended up with two separate iCloud accounts and trying to sort that nightmare between laptop and phone, quite frankly it’s enough to make you scream, swear, throw things, flip a table and in extreme measures, throat punch a baby! Not yours, of course. Maybe just the whinging wailing sticky little screecher downstairs from me. But that’s for another day.

I was so fed up awhile ago I just changed them all to “LetMeInIn321OrTheBabyGetsIt’